Last week, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future welcomed the 16th cohort of its Graduate Summer Fellows program to the Center. This year’s session includes BU graduate students representing four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. During the first two weeks of the program, the Fellows participated in […]
On May 16, 2023, the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, the Global Development Policy Center, and the Development Bank of Latin America (CAF) held a workshop in Cali, Colombia, titled “Financing the Foundation: The Role of Development Banks in Catalyzing a 21st Century Infrastructure in South America.” The meeting, held in […]
The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future is pleased to announce its 2023 Graduate Summer Fellows. These eight outstanding Boston University graduate students represent four different schools or colleges and eight different academic departments. Starting May 30, the Graduate Summer Fellows will spend 10 weeks developing research papers to be considered for publication […]
Jeffrey Geddes, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Earth & Environment and a Pardee Center Faculty Research Fellow, recently gave an invited talk at the American Chemical Society’s 2023 Spring Meeting in Indianapolis. The title of his talk was “Sources and Sinks in the Biosphere: Advancing the Predictive Capacity of Ecosystem-Atmosphere-Chemistry Interactions.” In his […]
Sam Deese and Michael Holm, Senior Lecturers in the College of General Studies and former Faculty Research Fellows at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future, are the co-editors of a new book exploring how liberal democracy can better adapt to the challenges of our time by evolving beyond the […]
The world today faces a huge contradiction. On the one hand, the data shows that power, especially economic power, is shifting to Asia. On the other hand, the established powers, especially in the trans-Atlantic alliance, refuse to acknowledge that a major transition in world history is happening, as they continue to cling to old privileges […]
On March 29, the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future hosted an all-day conference titled “How Wars End.” The event featured five expert panels. The full program is below. This conference was convened by
Application Deadline: Tuesday, March 14 Download full application instructions Applications are now being accepted for the 2023 Pardee Center Graduate Summer Fellows Program, which offers graduate students from across Boston University an opportunity for intensive interdisciplinary research and writing on topics aligned with the future-focused research interests of BU’s Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study […]